A Puppy frugal installation is performed by extracting the contents of the container ISO or ZIP file to one, i.e. the same, directory on any FAT32, NTFS or EXT4 formatted partition.

If the target partition or drive contains any personally important files copy them elsewhere if required, because they will be destroyed when formatting.

If, after performing the installation processes described below, the computer does not boot follow the instructions in Appendices 1 and 3 at LiveDVD.

The next three steps assume that one is running Puppy Linux and the target drive is an external flash memory device, however, the target drive or partition could just as well be an internal one. If running Microsoft Windows go to Appendix 1 below.